We’ve all heard of recycling cans, newspapers, even plastics, but how about recycling water? The practice is becoming more prevalent – and for good reason. The average household uses about 350 gallons of water a day and even more in the summertime – and that doesn’t even include all the water needed to maintain parks, golf courses, schools, etc. Since water is a natural resource – one in limited supply – many communities are recognizing that they have to act today to ensure they’ll have enough water for tomorrow. Enter water recycling, a two-step process that uses advanced technologies to turn wastewater into clean water. First, a technology called membrane filtration filters harmful solids and bacteria from wastewater through thousands of straw-like micro-porous filters. Then, the clean water passes through an even finer membrane filter. The result: water that is purified above drinking water standards. This water is then used for other purposes – such as watering golf courses and parks, as well as industrial and construction projects. Recycled water has saved the region more than 65 billion gallons of drinking water since 1995 and water recycling plants are popping up more and more around the country. Produced for Siemens Water Technologies www.majarikanayakan.com
Rodolfo
Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Water Recycling using Membrane
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Bert McCarty: Turf Grass Science
Sunday, June 7th, 2009
Bert McCarty Horticulture, Clemson University Turf is a major economic impact for the state citizens of South Carolina. Hi my name is Bert McCarty I’m a professor of horticulture at Clemson University in beautiful Clemson, South Carolina. I specialize in turf grass science; my job is to keep grass green. In the state of South Carolina we have over four-hundred golf courses. Each one of these golf courses have an operating budget of between a half to one million dollars a year with a majority of that going to personnel. So obviously golf and other turf entities are a major economic driving impact to the state citizens of South Carolina. Our major grass growing in the state during the summer is bent grass. Bent grass suffers when we get to the heat and moisture stress of the summer conditions in South Carolina so I try to figure out ways to make that grass stay greener with less input. Other avenues of turf grass interests in the state are sports field, sod farms and of course home lawns. Another major economic impact of turf grass in the state of South Carolina are playing surfaces for sports fields athletic complexes, etc. We have in the state over eight hundred that we know of sports fields in South Carolina and of course each one of those have their own economic imputs to the state economy. These sports fields, especially at the college level and higher, are specially built. For example Death Valley here at Clemson University is built on pure sand. It has an underlying …
Joel